“No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God” (Romans 4:20, ESV).

I thought this verse gives us a great principle. We all want to grow strong in our faith. We all see places where our faith lacks—wavers when challenged. This verse gives us something we can do about it.

Faith is a gift from God, but there are also verses about stirring up the gift received from God. God gave us our muscles, and we know they grow weak if we don’t use them. We can receive gifts from God and not use them. We can let our faith grow weak by lack of use, or we can stir ourselves up in faith and strengthen it.

This verse gives us a simple way to strengthen our faith. It doesn’t require stepping out of the boat and walking on the water. It doesn’t require stretching out our hand and walking through the midst of the sea. It just asks us to praise God!

Praising God should be part of your everyday life, not just thanking Him for the good things of the day, but praising Him for who His is and who He always will be. It’s His unchanging character that we can rely on, that we can hope in, that our faith can rest on. Praising Him reminds us of who our God is and that we’ve chosen Him to be our God.

Praise the almighty king, ruler of the universe, the victorious, majestic, awesome God and be encouraged in your faith. The God who is mighty to save, is your God!